Where you are
It is Tuesday, August 18, 8:20 p.m. You are working at the living room table, laptop open. Dani just got off the phone and walked into the kitchen.
Escenario 6 · Rol B
Cris
Monday morning is yours
Esta ficha es solo tuya. La otra persona tiene objetivos y datos distintos. No intercambien pantallas hasta terminar.
Informal. Eight months sharing this apartment. Breakfast here tomorrow. No boss here. They start. About 9 turns each · 8 minutes.
Your screen only. Don't show it. Don't read from it.
Tu información
Lo que sabes y lo que necesitas
You want
You want the whole morning of Monday the 24th at that table, and you want Dani to sign the lease before September 1.
You can't
- You can't do the interview in your room. Don't explain why unless they ask. It just sounds like an excuse. You need that table or you lose the call.
- You can't say no to the visit. You never make the visit the problem, and if you say no, you are the bad guy at breakfast.
- You can't say all three things at once. One thing per turn, and the lease last. Say it early and it sounds like payment for the visit.
Only you know
- Dani does not know three things yet: your interview on Monday the 24th, your mom's ticket for Saturday the 29th, and the lease.
- Dani thinks you work in your room.
- You have three reasons for the living room, and you don't give them first. You know two things about that window: a weak signal, and, from the bars downstairs, a truck unloading at nine in the morning. If they ask, tell all of it.
If you walk away with nothing
On Monday the 24th Dani has the living room and your video call is gone. Nobody signs before September 1, and you both spend two weeks looking for another apartment.
Notas, no frases
Datos duros
| Now | Tuesday, August 18 · 8:20 p.m. |
| Your interview | Monday the 24th, 9:00 a.m. · one hour · video call · the final one · quiet in the room from 8:00, out at 11:00 |
| The living room | one table · the only good light and good signal · a room again before 7:00 a.m. — mattress up, blankets away in the closet |
| The apartment | two bedrooms · one couch |
| The mattress | one single mattress at home · place for it: a bedroom floor |
| Iván | Dani's cousin, from Cúcuta · never met |
| Your mom | arriving Saturday the 29th, staying the weekend · ticket bought · her bed on other visits: the couch |
| The lease | you both sign, before September 1 |
| If nobody signs | two weeks to find another apartment, the two of you |
| Sunday the 23rd | kitchen, after lunch · the day for the things you did not decide today |
Palabras para esta situación
Vocabulario
10 palabras| Word | What it is | Here |
|---|---|---|
| a hostel | a cheap place to sleep, in a room with other people | the obvious cheap idea — to ask about, never to assume |
| a video call | a call where the two people see each other on a screen | one hour on Monday — why the table, and not your room · only if they ask |
| an interview | a meeting where a company asks you questions for a job | Monday the 24th at nine, the final one — the hour you are protecting |
| quiet | with no noise around you | what that room has to be from 8:00 — a whole hour before the call |
| the lease | the paper that says you can live in this apartment | your third thing, and the last one you bring out |
| the signal | how well the phone or the wifi works in one place | good at the table, weak by your window — one of the three reasons, and only if they ask |
| to be out all day | to be away from home from morning to night | their words, not yours — reception, and the cue you have to catch |
| to drop | (about the wifi) to stop for a moment and then come back | your reason — not the first thing you give |
| to sign | to write your name on a paper to say yes to it | the exact thing you need from them |
| to unload | to take boxes out of a truck | nine in the morning, under that window |
Ayuda común
Caja de herramientas A2
Blocks 2, 3 [receives], 4 [jargon] — lease, drop, unload are yours, not theirs — 5, 6, 7 [grants], 8. Block 1 is not yours today: they start, so you never open. Block 6: only for the living room, until they ask.
Solo para tu rol
Expresiones útiles
9 opciones| Purpose | Form | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| a third door | Can we do it another way? | you say no to the plan and not to the visit |
| booking the table | I need the living room on…, from… to… · I'll finish at… | you book your hours with a day and two times, and you close them with the last one |
| granting it | If…, I'll say yes. | a yes with a day and an hour inside it |
| leaving something for later | Let's leave [what] for… | you park one thing on a day, instead of losing it |
| saying yes to the cousin | I'm not saying no, but… | you say yes to the cousin and you put your own thing in the same sentence |
| taking it back | That's not true anymore. | you break a fact you put on the table yourself |
| the name on the lease | My mom is arriving on… · And one more thing: the lease, before… | the second ask, as a closed plan with a date on it |
| the reason, if they ask | The wifi drops next to… | why the living room and not your room — all of it |
| what you still don't know | How many nights? · What's he going to do all day? | first the number, then the fact that decides your Monday |
Cuándo terminar
Closing criterion
Each of you says three things out loud. Six in total. Nobody says the other person's three lines.
Dani's screen · your three: where Iván sleeps on Thursday the 20th, and who sleeps where that night · the second bed, and that nobody pays for it · the message for the aunt, out loud, in front of Cris.
Cris's screen · your three: from what time to what time the living room is yours on Monday the 24th · the lease, and the day it has to carry the two names · what you did not decide today, and when you talk about it — Sunday the 23rd, in the kitchen, after lunch.
Together, once: Cris says yes to the aunt's message, or changes one word in it. If Cris changes one word, the two of you agreed on different things.
Four rules:
- Your three lines are yours. If the other one says one of them, it doesn't count — say it again yourself.
- You can check with your own words. So, we're clear then is not one of the six lines, and it isn't cheating either.
- Saying yes is not a line. Yeah, sure, okay, fine and that works are not lines by themselves — and they don't close the
Togethereither. - Nothing goes one way. In the same turn, say what you give and what you get — and the other one says out loud what they give back.
Six lines, or it isn't closed. The easy one to forget is the third one. Skip it and the conversation just stops. It doesn't end.
Success: One at a time, your order, lease last · never a no to the visit, and Monday the 24th, 8:00 to 11:00, yours · the living-room reason only when they asked, and then all of it · you asked an open question about Iván's days · you said what you lose · you never said the problem is them, and breakfast tomorrow still works.
Después de hablar
Conversen sobre cómo les fue
- ¿Qué dato del otro no habrían sabido nunca si nadie pregunta? Busquen el turno exacto en el que salió y quién lo sacó.
- ¿Hubo algún momento en que uno de los dos estuvo a punto de decir «el problema eres tú»? ¿Con qué lo cambió?
- Quedó algo sin decidir. ¿Entendieron los dos lo mismo sobre qué es y cuándo se habla? Compruébenlo: díganlo otra vez, cada uno con sus palabras.
- ¿Qué le costó esto a cada uno, y a quién más de fuera de esta cocina le cambia el plan?
Para repasar
Gramática que sostiene este escenario
- Present Continuous para el futuro en Inglés A2: planes concretosa2
Las dos noticias del escenario son planes cerrados con pasaje comprado: "He's coming on…" y "My mom is arriving on…", que es además la frase que la carta obliga a retirar. Y es el tiempo del mensaje que A tiene que decirle a la tía en el cierre: "So: he's coming on…, and he's sleeping…, right?".
- El Primer Condicional en Inglés A2a2
La condición que desbloquea el acuerdo: "If…, I'm OK with it".
- El Futuro con Will en Inglés A2a2
Solo hay un will escrito, y es el que cierra la franja de la mañana: "I'll finish at eleven". El de la firma no está escrito en ninguna ficha: sale solo en cuanto alguien le pone fecha al papel.
- Cuantificadores en Inglés A2a2
Lo que se reparte no es dinero, es un número de noches y una franja de horas: "How many nights?", y la respuesta —diez— contra "the whole morning".
- Conectores en Inglés A2: because, so, although, however, buta2
Nadie cierra la puerta y todos ponen lo suyo con el mismo but: "I'm not saying no, but…".
- Going to en inglés A1a1
La mala noticia se da en futuro planeado, y eso es lo que la hace sonar a hecho consumado: "He's going to sleep…"; y la pregunta que la desmonta: "What's he going to do all day?".
- There is / There are en inglés A1a1
La segunda salida de Dani se ofrece con there is, y por eso suena a inventario y no a exigencia: "He can sleep… There's a mattress".
- Preposiciones de tiempo en inglés A1a1
El reparto se dice con on/at: "He's coming on…", "at nine in the morning". Nunca con by de tiempo, que no está en el registro. (from…to, before y until se usan como léxico: el tema no los cubre.)
- El imperativo en inglés A1a1
Frenar al otro a mitad de una noticia es un imperativo, y aquí ocurre tres veces: "Wait — when?", "Let's leave [what] for…", y los dos de la caja del nivel ("Hold on.", "Let me say that again.").
- Can para habilidad en inglés A1a1
Dani propone dónde duerme y Cris pide otra salida: "He can sleep…", "Can we do it another way?".
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